📊 LayerChart 2.0 is officially released! After ~16 months of development and 67 pre-releases, the official 2.0.0 release has been published! 🎉 This includes the Svelte 5 rewrite, CSS framework agnostic, improved API and state, numerous new components and chart types, and so much more!

Sophie Wang @sophielwang.bsky.social wants to know what colors people associate with abstract concepts. Take her 10-question survey and help uncover the hidden relationships between ideas and color: www.sophielwang.com/color I'd love to share my results, but I'd rather not introduce any bias 🎨 👀

The sixth installment of "How The Heck" is live! This one is all about synths. perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

In case anyone needs to play with a bunch of drum machines and sequencers today: https://roland50.studio/

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how

"HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free." hyperblam.how I love everything about this.

I am having fun. and so can you heerichdots.netlify.app Share your compositions above please <3

Have you ever thought about how you mow a lawn? We have. (A lot.) We partnered with Citizen Codex on a research project — and this is where it starts. Give it a go, drop your score in the comments, and follow along for the full story in a few weeks. #dataviz pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/...

🗺️ 📣 I've been off bluesky for a while, but popping in to announce Graticule, my new app for making maps! graticule.org It's a work-in-progress but I'd love to hear any feedback. What features would you like to see next?

It's the first day of the World Cup! No, not that World Cup. The one with 1000x more birds and 1000% less Infantino... The World Cup of Birds! 🐦🏆🐦!

Bravo, love everything about it. The facts, the storytelling, the design, the scope, the interactions!

The final ever episode of 'Explore Explain' will be a recorded live webinar on 29 June 1pm (UTC) where I and my brilliant collaborators will both explore and explain the creative process behind the new digital edition of 'The Seinfeld Chronicles'. Register now! visualisingdata.com/2026/06/expl...

Announced yesterday, details of my final episode of Explore Explain which will take part as a webinar event on 29th June. Join the session to watch live and take part in the Q&A after we've revealed the behind the scenes of our soon-to-be launched new project...

🇨🇴 How do you visualize an election? A scroll-driven story: Colombia's map morphs step by step into 1,189 bubbles, one per municipality. Scroll through it and compare every presidential race since 1974 👇 johnguerra.co/viz/resultad... #Colombia #DataViz

In this notebook, @laotzunami.bsky.social visualizes a state space of possible chart types and transitions among them along defined edges. Transitions between unconnected types are achieved by routing through intermediate types. observablehq.com/d/3c8b082818...

Excited to share a project I worked on over the past year 🎬✂️ A scrollytelling visualization exploring Lotte Reiniger’s work through 3 film databases, and how each platform’s purpose shapes the professional perception of her legacy. #DataVisualization #sveltekit #LotteReiniger #Scrollytelling

#webdev hivemind, what are using to check content heavy projects for dead links? I just found this link checker project and think it sounds very promising: github.com/JustinBeckwi... Run a simple Node script with linkinator via cron job. Easy! What are the alternatives? Do you know a better one?

What a wasted opportunity: someone could create a website for the domain hell.no but it just sits there. Empty and alone. What would you put on it?

📊 LayerChart: Dodge, Waffle, and more 🏃 New Dodge component 🧇 New Waffle component 🖼️ Canvas: Blur support, improved Pattern (pixel-perfect alignment with SVG, high DPI) 🏎️ Perf improvements details👇

In 2015, Derek Watkins built a chart for The New York Times that I liked so much that two years later, I wrote a whole article about it: www.datawrapper.de/blog/readers... Today, I rebuilt it in Datawrapper with updated data: www.datawrapper.de/_/vnJXh/ That was fun. I should rebuild more charts.

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school this visual essay is for you: pudding.cool/2026/05/simi...

Scroll through from the tiniest organism right up to the largest. All beautifully hand-illustrated by an actual human. neal.fun/size-of-life/

Few seats left for my Data Storytelling seminar in June! Over the course of 2 days, we’ll explore hands-on how to transform datasets into clear and engaging data stories. Small group (max 10), in-person in Hamburg, in German, in June. www.akademie-fuer-publizistik.de/seminars/dat... #dataviz

OK this piece by @reckless.bsky.social about why AI is unpopular among most people (anyone who's not inflicted with "software brain") is just solid gold from start to finish

Three weeks ago, we published an interactive story that lets our readers find their relatives in the Nazi Party membership archives. The response has been overwhelming, both in Germany and internationally. The story was covered by outlets such as Le Monde, CBC, Radio-Canada and CNN.

This looks gorgeous. Love the small interactions.

Very cool Svelte component library using GSAP + OGL for interactive animations from ASCII to typography effects from the author of Motion GPU motion-core.dev

I built an interactive guide on how GPS works! perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...

I 3D-printed a Cheysson-style map of France showing the modal number of salutatory cheek-kisses in each department. It took ages. 3dartmaps.etsy.com/listing/4490...

interpolating projections 😮 look at that interactive example! next.layerchart.com/docs/compone...

#svelte hivemind who can solve this puzzle?

Tiny change requests pile up fast. What if clients could make small updates on a coded data viz themselves? In my new post on "Beyond the Chart", I cover what to make configurable, how it adds value, and real-world examples. Read more: www.kristin-baumann.com/blog/empower... #dataviz #charts

Ever wondered what a network of twin cities around the world would look like? I grabbed some data from #Wikidata a while ago, and thought #Experimental day 5 of the #30DayChartChallenge was a good excuse to share this half-finished gizmo with the world. Enjoy! bothness.github.io/twin-cities/ 1/3

I search through a lot of old text and needed something that showed multiple searches simultaneously so I vibe coded MultiSearch, a small tool to do just that. Figured others might find it useful so it’s available for everyone for free with no restrictions: www.c82.net/work/?id=401

Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG ╬ Boolean ops ◮ Oblique & perspective 𝑥 Zero dependencies ◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures. meodai.github.io/heerich/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...

NEW POST: I asked Obinna to compile a list of data viz and notable subject-adjacent conference events taking place in 2026 and he gathered so many it felt natural to publish as a post and share with the world! visualisingdata.com/2026/03/data...

A voice of reason. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

Recently I took a step back to reflect thoroughly on my freelance work until now. I especially love collaborating with agencies and other freelancers on creating custom, interactive data viz ✨ In the process, I redid my whole website & branding 😅 Finally live: www.kristin-baumann.com #dataviz

Map with a hand-drawn style created using Geoviz and Rough.js 🖌️ observablehq.com/@neocartocnr...

Interesting read. This article lays out a compelling case for why the web might work very differently, sooner or later: bjro.github.io/openclaw-end...

“If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/so...

NEW EPISODE! Season 6 episode 7 welcomes (back) @moritzstefaner.bsky.social & @ebertini.bsky.social as we look back over 5(+1) works that have most shaped their data viz thinking and careers. This first-part episode starts with Moritz's selections. visualisingdata.com/2026/03/expl...

I made a p5.js wrapper for Svelte you can install with `npm i @‎sveltecraft/p5-svelte` or watch the video where I explain how it's used and making old libraries work in Svelte youtu.be/97bD9ZHwv2U

Many women who’ve done IVF call themselves warriors. @lamthuyvo.bsky.social is one of them. Follow her interactive journey through infertility, told from two perspectives: parent & child. pudding.cool/2026/03/ivf/

File managers suck, so I built one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release. Day 1: Rich folder previews with composition and git info.

Say hello to the Raster mark in SveltePlot! Starting with v0.12 you can use it to create raster heatmaps from gridded and ungridded data! Again, this wouldn't be possible without @observablehq.com plot 💚. svelteplot.dev/marks/raster

Made a quick interactive cheat sheet for the Best Director nominees ahead of the Oscars: yanouski.com/projects/osc... #datavis #dataviz #Svelte #D3js #Oscar

a beautiful infinite type glyph scroll website: glyphs.djr.com

When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz. Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂 d3js.org